abominatio

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin abominatio. Doublet of abomination.

Noun

abominatio (uncountable)

1. (rhetoric) bdelygmia
2. (rhetoric) apodioxis

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Latin

Etymology

From abomino with the suffix -atio.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /a.boː.miˈnaː.ti.oː/, [äboːmɪˈnäːt̪ioː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /a.bo.miˈnat.t͡si.o/, [äbomiˈnät̪ː͡s̪io]

Noun

abōminātiō f (genitive abōminātiōnis); third declension

1. (Late Latin) aversion, detestation, loathing
2. vocative singular of abōminātiō

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	abōminātiō	abōminātiōnēs
Genitive	abōminātiōnis	abōminātiōnum
Dative	abōminātiōnī	abōminātiōnibus
Accusative	abōminātiōnem	abōminātiōnēs
Ablative	abōminātiōne	abōminātiōnibus
Vocative	abōminātiō	abōminātiōnēs

Descendants

• Catalan: abominació
• English: abomination
• French: abomination
• Galician: abominación
• Italian: abominazione
• Portuguese: abominação
• Spanish: abominación

References

• “abominatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• abominatio in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• abominatio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.